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"The woman who claimed that if she was in charge of the January 6th insurrection they would have been armed and they would have won is now is a member of the Homeland Security Committee.",
">\n\nLol yeah, we're fucked. Wouldn't be surprised if she tried to let Russia just walk all over Alaska",
">\n\nTrump was damn close to that apparently letting china roam drones across the US.",
">\n\nIt'll happen more, just way more blatant. Oh don't expect the election to be counted fairly either.",
">\n\nAt this point, I would be surprised if there wasnt gop fuckery going on",
">\n\nThere obviously is but they'll just be way more open about it until they have complete control over everything. Which at this rate they definitely will. Bo regulation over gerrymandering, filibusters, voting rights being shafted from ethnic minorities, we're kinda fucked. But hey as long as \"JuST VoTE\" is our best bet then we can oat ourselves on the back for doing fuck all",
">\n\nJust vote was our best bet. People squandered it long enough that Id say next years elections is probably most definitely the last chance we get to stop this shitshow. \nWe saw in 2020 and the midterms that the odds can be beat. Red wave never happened. Lets make sure it doesnt.",
">\n\nThe fact she is on \"The committee of Oversight and Accountability\" caves my head in",
">\n\nShe's trying to rehab her image to being just another fringe republican instead of a literal crazy person talking about Jewish space lasers. It's a pretty sure bet she gave tours to people planning Jan 6th and now she's acting like she's a distinguished stateswoman. Just wild.",
">\n\nShe's angling for a VP nomination.",
">\n\nWhy stop there? She'd make a great final president.",
">\n\nZach Galafinakis's question to Obama on Between Two Ferns, \"how does it feel to be the last black President?\" is going to age like milk.",
">\n\nWouldn't that be aging like wine, or cheese? It's not a good thing, but I thought aging like milk meant it didn't come true.",
">\n\nI've always interpreted aging like milk meaning the outcome is gross/unpalatable/rotten. As opposed to aging like wine, where as it ages it improves in flavor or whatever.",
">\n\nIt generally has the connotation that the take was wildly off the mark in hindsight.\nLike Daveed Diggs (Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton) quipping \"Never Gonna Be President Now\" after Trump's Access Hollywood scandal.\nIt was, at the time, a safe bet to make. \nThen Trump won the elecetion. In hindsight, the quip aged like milk.",
">\n\nStill can’t believe Grab em by the pussy didn’t ruin the dude.",
">\n\nNever underestimate how much the Repugs hate Hillary.",
">\n\nI can't believe Republicans (people, not the politicians) can look at the clown show going on in the House of Representatives and be proud of what they stand for.",
">\n\nIn my experience Republican voters have no idea what happens in congress. They don’t pay attention to the day to day, they just let talk radio tell them",
">\n\nMy boss actively listens to rightwing radio hosts all day that are just as outrageous as the most absurd q-anon hubs online.",
">\n\nDoes he also buy any of the products being endlessly promoted? \nVitamins, precious metals, valuable financial advice newsletters, seed banks...lifelock? /s",
">\n\nHe gave me something called Bulletproof Coffee once as a gift, and I've definitely never seen that at any grocery store.",
">\n\nWatch the video further down the page. Holy shit.\n\"Ruth Bader Gingrich\" \nWhat the fuck?",
">\n\nShe turned me into a Newt",
">\n\nI got better!",
">\n\nSomeone see if she floats like a duck!",
">\n\nWho are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?",
">\n\nI'd like to seek the holy grail with you.",
">\n\nListen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.",
">\n\nIt would be hard for me to watch this person preside over a bagging station at a grocery store, much less as Speaker of the House",
">\n\nShe’d have the gazpacho police down there in a heartbeat.",
">\n\nRight after she declared Marshall law",
">\n\nSomething something Pete Tree dish?",
">\n\nIf only the media would tell it like it is and call the GOP a party of extremism. They need to cut the \"reasonable/rational Republican\" bullshit. Looking at you, CNN. Unlikely considering their new ownership.",
">\n\nOh, you mean the 6 corporations that own 90% of the media? Yep, I've wondered the same thing myself.....\nA real head scratcher that one.",
">\n\nAnother thanks to Reagan with the media industry deregulation which is why we have propaganda outlets now controlled by the wealthy to sow divide and increase their profits\nReagan and Jack Welch really destroyed this country back in the '80s and were really feeling the affects now",
">\n\nCan we dig them up and put them on trial? The Catholic Church did it to a Pope several times. Could be cathartic for some viewers lol\nMaybe make it into a broadway performance, Jon Vought did some nonsense with an empty chair claiming he was yelling at Obama.",
">\n\nI'd settle for reversing some of the policies but if anyone wants to put on a show they can go for it",
">\n\nThis is the world we live in folks. Hard to believe we are here. Hard to believe how we got here. But as I look around, we are definitely here. Question now becomes, what do we do with here? Do we accept it and drool along with it? Or do we start changing it into something that bears some semblance to a sane reality?",
">\n\nAs a fellow Floridian looking at 1984 and Harry Potter book bans, I want to change it. However, I’m only one vote in a sea of DeSantis lovers who are reveling in him taking Reedy Creek away from Disney because they don’t back his anti-LGBT initiatives.\nIt’s who America is now.",
">\n\nI wonder what will happen to the Harry Potter theme park. Will it be banned?",
">\n\nUniversal theme parks are seemingly unaffected because they didn’t speak out against Desantis’s “dont say gay” bill.",
">\n\nIsn't Harry Potter some sort of devil worship? How can they ban the books but not the theme park. Desatan is how I refer to America's new Hitler.",
">\n\nThe book banning has nothing to do with devil worship and everything to do banning books that teach kids “woke” ideologies… what is a “woke” ideology you may ask? Well it’s anything that undercuts a republicans chance at power.",
">\n\nHarry Potter bans don’t make sense then, given the author. But I suppose the GQP never did care about that",
">\n\nDecades ago I remember a group was trying to ban “The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe” because “witches are bad.” Book banning never makes senses.",
">\n\n\nC S Lewis is an enemy to Christianity. \n\n-a conservative in the US, probably.",
">\n\nWhich is funny because C.S. Lewis was a Christian.",
">\n\nLow IQ ignorant hate filled psychopath in a position of power in the US government. Great, just great.",
">\n\nShe suggested before she even finished her first year of her first term that she thought she was ready to take over McCarthy's House minority position. Her own party ignored her then.",
">\n\nShe is a stunning example of the dunning Kruger effect",
">\n\nI think you mean the dumpling kugel effect",
">\n\nGreen is the Republican Party.",
">\n\nFull stop. This is who the GOP is. They made a deal with Greene, Boebert, and the rest of the treason caucus, and now the whole country must suffer as a result.",
">\n\n\"The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.\" \\~ P. J. O'Rourke",
">\n\nShe is the kind of person who swings around someone to steal their parking spot and then smiles while putting up her middle finger at them as she walks away.",
">\n\nBoBo shot someones dog because it crossed the imaginary boundary of \"property\". Also ran over a neighbors mail box in a fued. \nMTG was banging dudes in her husbands failed gym business to the point where it was so embarassing her husband issued a divorce. Meanwhile her child has made videos pleeing with the public to be like \"please don't judge me my mom is fucking insane\".\nThese are not good or reasonable people by any measure of the imagination. A quick glance at what they've voted against and I guess the few things they've voted for makes it very clear they are not good people...",
">\n\nUnfortunately the difference between misinformation and lies are that the person spreading them it isn't aware of it.\nI thought it was true too so I'm glad to see the fact check.",
">\n\nIt’s an alternative fact now",
">\n\nDid you hear the part where she said a single middle school received 5.1 billion dollars to teach CRT. So blatantly false, literally no school in America has ever received 5.1 billion in total. And Middle schools don't teach CRT, it's a course in university level legal programs . . . . .\nEdit. 5.1 not 51 billion. Still insane",
">\n\nActually, she said 5.1. Still insane, none the less.",
">\n\nThe vast majority of universities’ entire budgets aren’t even that high",
">\n\n“Why are you worried about an insurrectionist in this position, when you should worry that Sam Smith wore a cartoon devil costume!”",
">\n\nI really don’t know what people expect to happen if they let republicans control things. Republicans tell you exactly what they are going to do. They tell you what they think. They don’t hide anything. They proudly parade the crazy around for all to see. The crazy is the platform. That is what oeople are voting for and not voting against. The problem is not the elected nuts. It is the voters. The voters are the ones doing this. Marge is just a messenger.",
">\n\nAnd the elected democrats continue trying to play nice with these psychopaths. Will they ever learn?",
">\n\nI blame half of this on CNN and other news stations that gave her 100 hours of coverage per week. The right used her to “trigger” the left. That is the only reason she grew through the ranks. The right is using her the same way they used trump. As a way to make us more divided than we already are. She is an idiot but idiots should be left alone and not even the time of day. We give her on this platform at least 2 articles a day. \nFuck her and let her fade away.",
">\n\nYou say that like this sub hasn't been skyrocketing every article about her to the frontpage since she was elected.",
">\n\nWhen people show you who they are, believe them.\nThis is who the mainstream Republican Party is now, believe them when they tell you and show you this.",
">\n\nWell, Goering became speaker of the Reichstag in August 1932, half a year before the Nazis came to power, so even if history doesn't repeat, it sure rhymes.",
">\n\nat this point it's safe to say history repeats",
">\n\nRhymes repeat, the point is to not to look for 1-to-1 examples.",
">\n\nGod I hate some modern journalism. A tweet saying it made someone physically ill and it becomes a whole headline and article. Time and effort should be put into reporting her actual awful actions as a congresswoman and investigating her links to corporations, lobbyists, and extremists rather than looking for a couple tweets with catchy wording.",
">\n\nIt’s Newsweek, it’s not the news. \nIgnore 100% of their articles, always.",
">\n\nShe's the lady who gathered the group of extremists who harrassed the school shooting survivors right?",
">\n\nDafaq 'murica?",
">\n\nAmerican here - believe me, we’re saying “dafuq” too.",
">\n\nStart saying it louder and more violently then. It's pathetic the stuff you guys put up with.",
">\n\nLol yeah no shit. how much longer are they gonna make excuses and do literally nothing while their government is gutted by fascist idiots",
">\n\nSeriously, it's absolutely wild. The news gets crazier every day and never a damn thing. It makes me very nervous being directly to the North.",
">\n\nIt's gotten so bad, even America isn't capable of spreading democracy to (checks notes) America.",
">\n\nThe scary part is what happens to the rest of us once they go full fascist.",
">\n\nI feel like some country must have like a plan B for when shit hits the fan. Like the Dutch or the Danish having some cyberbomb that shuts down all nuclear launching capabilities. Or actual space lasers. AI powered hamsters maybe...\nA country that wasn't under any threat in this modern age has no need to advertise their warfare advancements.",
">\n\nI presume the people of the 14th district of Georgia are over the moon about it. They voted her in with almost 66% of the vote.\nNow the rest of us have to listen to this cartoon villain for another two years",
">\n\nThe other 34% tried. We really did.",
">\n\nWe sure did, solidarity and thanks for your vote. I live in a majority PoC neighborhood in her district and almost all of my neighbors are progressive liberals struggling to get by. Every time she is mentioned on Reddit some moron is like “the people of the 14th love her”. The hell we do! She sucks ass.",
">\n\nI didn’t realize how far south our district goes. Are you closer to Atlanta? I’m not too far from Rome.",
">\n\nI’m north of Dallas, relatively close to the Cobb County border. My area would definitely surprise people who think the district is all dirt roads and hillbilly extremists.",
">\n\nI remember when I was in elementary school. We each got a turn to use a special chair in one of my classes for a week. That also would be too much power for her.",
">\n\nShe is literally a seditionist.",
">\n\nI will never understand how anyone can find someone like this to be anything but an awful person. I just don't get it. She is so hateful.",
">\n\nThats exactly why she appeals to conservative voters. It’s not a coincidence.",
">\n\nThis would not be happening if Merrick Garland was worth anything at all as an Attorney General. He's a joke, and Biden isn't much better for sitting back and refusing to replace him with someone willing to do his actual job.\nIt amazes me how Brazil, a month out from their coup attempt, has already done more than the US has to hold its high traitors accountable than the US has in two+ years.",
">\n\nTicking another item off the list of things McCarthy agreed to, to become speaker of the house.",
">\n\nIt’s pretty much scripted drama folks. She’s being elevated so that McCarthy doesn’t look so bad.",
">\n\nYeah. President and vp killed while this lying scum Christian nationalist is in that seat, THEN what? Do you trust them?",
">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Greene existing leaves everyone physically ill",
">\n\nSo tired of the GOP being treated like legitimate political discourse. They are abhorrent and insurrectionist rebels and need to be crushed.",
">\n\nOstracism, people, ostracism. Also write down all names of people approving her directly or indirectly. They need to go as well.",
">\n\nAs it should. I've never seen someone more unfit for public office in my life. And that includes Trump.",
">\n\nMTG, a scientifically ignorant religious bigot, misogynist, and homophobe.",
">\n\nShe got to cosplay being a regular house member. This will end in 2024.",
">\n\nAmerica. You’re a laughing stock.",
">\n\nHave been since the Reagan years. The remainder of the first world continues to be amazed we can be so ignorant, hateful, callous, and proud of it. It’s quite sad. The GOP have actively worked for decades to dismantle the U.S. and harm the majority of people, while also continuing to be elected by those they want to hurt. Makes no sense and interacting with someone from another country always turns into, “Wait, the U.S. does/doesn’t (blank)!? Wooooow…”.",
">\n\n\nThe remainder of the first world continues to be amazed we can be so ignorant, hateful, callous, and proud of it.\n\nThis is downplaying the rise of far right fascism across the globe",
">\n\nIt's sad how quickly the lessons of history are forgotten. Millions of people fought and died to prevent a global fascist takeover during World War II, but now a distressing number of their descendants are actively working towards undoing that sacrifice.",
">\n\nBut she hates her job when she has to work long hours but loves it when she gets to play house with McCarthy",
">\n\nMarge in Charge will turn out millennials/gen Z like the GOP has never seen. Make them wish they could raise the voting age to 40 and every other vote suppression trick in the book",
">\n\nSo glad I am in California right now and feel for our folks trapped in these red states that are captive to their governor's ambitions and the party of extremism now.\nAlso, way too many normal folks will ultimately back the extremist party now.",
">\n\nThat's exactly what they're going for. This is about \"trolling\" the country with an obviously incompetent Rep just to show they can. Don't freak out and give her more media coverage. Organize and vote.",
">\n\nHow did she graduate from middle school?",
">\n\nThe success of the radical tends to drive out or redefine the mainstream. The historical parallels are scary.",
">\n\nI truly believe things have to get really awful and extremely revolting for regular people to start making the right decisions (eg.- getting out and vote, pushing for a change)\nIt's always the same unfortunately, and nothing changes ...\nso I hope things get worse, horribly worst",
">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset",
">\n\nJesus that was hard to watch",
">\n\nListening to her speak in that exaggerated southern accent of hers makes me want to pour battery acid into my ear canals.",
">\n\nShe's trying so hard to be AOC.\nIt's hysterically embarrassing.",
">\n\nThe words \"presiding over House\" were unnecessary.",
">\n\ni will forever refer to her as \"empty greene\"",
">\n\nThe Dems and the Lincoln project have a very nice campaign visual now. MTG probably turns out Democratic voters and independents as much as Trump did. I'm sure she will become the poster child for voting Blue in 2024.",
">\n\nIt would...if history didn't already provide examples of ex-confederate scum bags getting elected in the years after the rebellion was quashed. History repeats itself.",
">\n\nI live in her district. She makes me physically ill just by being here.",
">\n\nThe normalization of Greene and all she believes and stands for will bury our democracy. It's death by a thousand little cuts.\nMeanwhile, the rest of the GOP rants about balloons, holding the economy hostage, and drag queens to keep people distracted from the power they are grabbing in order to push their insanity unto all of us.",
">\n\nShe i it s a reflection of this country’s darkest and most selfish nature.",
">\n\nThis troglodyte is an embarrassment to my state.",
">\n\nShe's been put in those positions to help make sure the next coup attempt works. Mark my words",
">\n\nYeah well get used to seeing her\nGA-14 doesn’t appear to be in a hurry to re-enter the realm of the reasonable anytime soon",
">\n\nThe real Americans of this country are going to have to squash this party to survive. It is so blatant what they're trying to do. If they win, you and I won't matter anymore.",
">\n\nParty with no standards shockingly continues to have no standards!",
">\n\nIsn't comforting to know we have politicians who's only goal is revenge and discrediting the other party.",
">\n\nThe fact that she was elected to public office in general makes me physically ill.",
">\n\nwhy is joe namath wearing a blonde wig and holding up a ghost football?",
">\n\nThis is a good illustration of the dangers of reducing your political engagement to \"us good them bad\".",
">\n\nRepublicans think they’re entitled to associate with christofascist domestic terrorists without being held to account, but in reality individuals aren’t the only ones judged by the company they keep. The same standard applies to political parties.\nIt’s amusing watching the GQP lay the foundation for a RepubliQan free future.",
">\n\nThe deals McCarthy made to finally become Speaker...",
">\n\none comedian tweeted they're phyically ill and newsweek decides to make this headline? fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nThe downward spiral of The Republican Party started with Newt Gingrich",
">\n\nYeah, well, get used to it. She got a taste and now she will fiend. It’s gonna be ~~scary~~ wild",
">\n\nWhen she says she can get used to banging the gravel I have images in my head of a toy monkey banging cymbals together.",
">\n\nShe’s such a piece of shit",
">\n\nDear Lord I'm from New Jersey what the hell is the matter with the people in Georgia voting for an imbecile like Marjorie Taylor Green, are they seriously that stupid in Georgia to vote for this incompetent racist buffoon",
">\n\nYes, they are.",
">\n\nShe doesn't have to preside over anything to make me physically ill.",
">\n\nHey both sides people.\nWhich democrat is as incompetent and demonstrably stupid as MTG?",
">\n\nThere’s not a single democrat that even touches this level of batshit crazy. This is not a both sides issue by any means.",
">\n\nThis country is such a shithole."
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"The woman who claimed that if she was in charge of the January 6th insurrection they would have been armed and they would have won is now is a member of the Homeland Security Committee.",
">\n\nLol yeah, we're fucked. Wouldn't be surprised if she tried to let Russia just walk all over Alaska",
">\n\nTrump was damn close to that apparently letting china roam drones across the US.",
">\n\nIt'll happen more, just way more blatant. Oh don't expect the election to be counted fairly either.",
">\n\nAt this point, I would be surprised if there wasnt gop fuckery going on",
">\n\nThere obviously is but they'll just be way more open about it until they have complete control over everything. Which at this rate they definitely will. Bo regulation over gerrymandering, filibusters, voting rights being shafted from ethnic minorities, we're kinda fucked. But hey as long as \"JuST VoTE\" is our best bet then we can oat ourselves on the back for doing fuck all",
">\n\nJust vote was our best bet. People squandered it long enough that Id say next years elections is probably most definitely the last chance we get to stop this shitshow. \nWe saw in 2020 and the midterms that the odds can be beat. Red wave never happened. Lets make sure it doesnt.",
">\n\nThe fact she is on \"The committee of Oversight and Accountability\" caves my head in",
">\n\nShe's trying to rehab her image to being just another fringe republican instead of a literal crazy person talking about Jewish space lasers. It's a pretty sure bet she gave tours to people planning Jan 6th and now she's acting like she's a distinguished stateswoman. Just wild.",
">\n\nShe's angling for a VP nomination.",
">\n\nWhy stop there? She'd make a great final president.",
">\n\nZach Galafinakis's question to Obama on Between Two Ferns, \"how does it feel to be the last black President?\" is going to age like milk.",
">\n\nWouldn't that be aging like wine, or cheese? It's not a good thing, but I thought aging like milk meant it didn't come true.",
">\n\nI've always interpreted aging like milk meaning the outcome is gross/unpalatable/rotten. As opposed to aging like wine, where as it ages it improves in flavor or whatever.",
">\n\nIt generally has the connotation that the take was wildly off the mark in hindsight.\nLike Daveed Diggs (Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton) quipping \"Never Gonna Be President Now\" after Trump's Access Hollywood scandal.\nIt was, at the time, a safe bet to make. \nThen Trump won the elecetion. In hindsight, the quip aged like milk.",
">\n\nStill can’t believe Grab em by the pussy didn’t ruin the dude.",
">\n\nNever underestimate how much the Repugs hate Hillary.",
">\n\nI can't believe Republicans (people, not the politicians) can look at the clown show going on in the House of Representatives and be proud of what they stand for.",
">\n\nIn my experience Republican voters have no idea what happens in congress. They don’t pay attention to the day to day, they just let talk radio tell them",
">\n\nMy boss actively listens to rightwing radio hosts all day that are just as outrageous as the most absurd q-anon hubs online.",
">\n\nDoes he also buy any of the products being endlessly promoted? \nVitamins, precious metals, valuable financial advice newsletters, seed banks...lifelock? /s",
">\n\nHe gave me something called Bulletproof Coffee once as a gift, and I've definitely never seen that at any grocery store.",
">\n\nWatch the video further down the page. Holy shit.\n\"Ruth Bader Gingrich\" \nWhat the fuck?",
">\n\nShe turned me into a Newt",
">\n\nI got better!",
">\n\nSomeone see if she floats like a duck!",
">\n\nWho are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?",
">\n\nI'd like to seek the holy grail with you.",
">\n\nListen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.",
">\n\nIt would be hard for me to watch this person preside over a bagging station at a grocery store, much less as Speaker of the House",
">\n\nShe’d have the gazpacho police down there in a heartbeat.",
">\n\nRight after she declared Marshall law",
">\n\nSomething something Pete Tree dish?",
">\n\nIf only the media would tell it like it is and call the GOP a party of extremism. They need to cut the \"reasonable/rational Republican\" bullshit. Looking at you, CNN. Unlikely considering their new ownership.",
">\n\nOh, you mean the 6 corporations that own 90% of the media? Yep, I've wondered the same thing myself.....\nA real head scratcher that one.",
">\n\nAnother thanks to Reagan with the media industry deregulation which is why we have propaganda outlets now controlled by the wealthy to sow divide and increase their profits\nReagan and Jack Welch really destroyed this country back in the '80s and were really feeling the affects now",
">\n\nCan we dig them up and put them on trial? The Catholic Church did it to a Pope several times. Could be cathartic for some viewers lol\nMaybe make it into a broadway performance, Jon Vought did some nonsense with an empty chair claiming he was yelling at Obama.",
">\n\nI'd settle for reversing some of the policies but if anyone wants to put on a show they can go for it",
">\n\nThis is the world we live in folks. Hard to believe we are here. Hard to believe how we got here. But as I look around, we are definitely here. Question now becomes, what do we do with here? Do we accept it and drool along with it? Or do we start changing it into something that bears some semblance to a sane reality?",
">\n\nAs a fellow Floridian looking at 1984 and Harry Potter book bans, I want to change it. However, I’m only one vote in a sea of DeSantis lovers who are reveling in him taking Reedy Creek away from Disney because they don’t back his anti-LGBT initiatives.\nIt’s who America is now.",
">\n\nI wonder what will happen to the Harry Potter theme park. Will it be banned?",
">\n\nUniversal theme parks are seemingly unaffected because they didn’t speak out against Desantis’s “dont say gay” bill.",
">\n\nIsn't Harry Potter some sort of devil worship? How can they ban the books but not the theme park. Desatan is how I refer to America's new Hitler.",
">\n\nThe book banning has nothing to do with devil worship and everything to do banning books that teach kids “woke” ideologies… what is a “woke” ideology you may ask? Well it’s anything that undercuts a republicans chance at power.",
">\n\nHarry Potter bans don’t make sense then, given the author. But I suppose the GQP never did care about that",
">\n\nDecades ago I remember a group was trying to ban “The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe” because “witches are bad.” Book banning never makes senses.",
">\n\n\nC S Lewis is an enemy to Christianity. \n\n-a conservative in the US, probably.",
">\n\nWhich is funny because C.S. Lewis was a Christian.",
">\n\nLow IQ ignorant hate filled psychopath in a position of power in the US government. Great, just great.",
">\n\nShe suggested before she even finished her first year of her first term that she thought she was ready to take over McCarthy's House minority position. Her own party ignored her then.",
">\n\nShe is a stunning example of the dunning Kruger effect",
">\n\nI think you mean the dumpling kugel effect",
">\n\nGreen is the Republican Party.",
">\n\nFull stop. This is who the GOP is. They made a deal with Greene, Boebert, and the rest of the treason caucus, and now the whole country must suffer as a result.",
">\n\n\"The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.\" \\~ P. J. O'Rourke",
">\n\nShe is the kind of person who swings around someone to steal their parking spot and then smiles while putting up her middle finger at them as she walks away.",
">\n\nBoBo shot someones dog because it crossed the imaginary boundary of \"property\". Also ran over a neighbors mail box in a fued. \nMTG was banging dudes in her husbands failed gym business to the point where it was so embarassing her husband issued a divorce. Meanwhile her child has made videos pleeing with the public to be like \"please don't judge me my mom is fucking insane\".\nThese are not good or reasonable people by any measure of the imagination. A quick glance at what they've voted against and I guess the few things they've voted for makes it very clear they are not good people...",
">\n\nUnfortunately the difference between misinformation and lies are that the person spreading them it isn't aware of it.\nI thought it was true too so I'm glad to see the fact check.",
">\n\nIt’s an alternative fact now",
">\n\nDid you hear the part where she said a single middle school received 5.1 billion dollars to teach CRT. So blatantly false, literally no school in America has ever received 5.1 billion in total. And Middle schools don't teach CRT, it's a course in university level legal programs . . . . .\nEdit. 5.1 not 51 billion. Still insane",
">\n\nActually, she said 5.1. Still insane, none the less.",
">\n\nThe vast majority of universities’ entire budgets aren’t even that high",
">\n\n“Why are you worried about an insurrectionist in this position, when you should worry that Sam Smith wore a cartoon devil costume!”",
">\n\nI really don’t know what people expect to happen if they let republicans control things. Republicans tell you exactly what they are going to do. They tell you what they think. They don’t hide anything. They proudly parade the crazy around for all to see. The crazy is the platform. That is what oeople are voting for and not voting against. The problem is not the elected nuts. It is the voters. The voters are the ones doing this. Marge is just a messenger.",
">\n\nAnd the elected democrats continue trying to play nice with these psychopaths. Will they ever learn?",
">\n\nI blame half of this on CNN and other news stations that gave her 100 hours of coverage per week. The right used her to “trigger” the left. That is the only reason she grew through the ranks. The right is using her the same way they used trump. As a way to make us more divided than we already are. She is an idiot but idiots should be left alone and not even the time of day. We give her on this platform at least 2 articles a day. \nFuck her and let her fade away.",
">\n\nYou say that like this sub hasn't been skyrocketing every article about her to the frontpage since she was elected.",
">\n\nWhen people show you who they are, believe them.\nThis is who the mainstream Republican Party is now, believe them when they tell you and show you this.",
">\n\nWell, Goering became speaker of the Reichstag in August 1932, half a year before the Nazis came to power, so even if history doesn't repeat, it sure rhymes.",
">\n\nat this point it's safe to say history repeats",
">\n\nRhymes repeat, the point is to not to look for 1-to-1 examples.",
">\n\nGod I hate some modern journalism. A tweet saying it made someone physically ill and it becomes a whole headline and article. Time and effort should be put into reporting her actual awful actions as a congresswoman and investigating her links to corporations, lobbyists, and extremists rather than looking for a couple tweets with catchy wording.",
">\n\nIt’s Newsweek, it’s not the news. \nIgnore 100% of their articles, always.",
">\n\nShe's the lady who gathered the group of extremists who harrassed the school shooting survivors right?",
">\n\nDafaq 'murica?",
">\n\nAmerican here - believe me, we’re saying “dafuq” too.",
">\n\nStart saying it louder and more violently then. It's pathetic the stuff you guys put up with.",
">\n\nLol yeah no shit. how much longer are they gonna make excuses and do literally nothing while their government is gutted by fascist idiots",
">\n\nSeriously, it's absolutely wild. The news gets crazier every day and never a damn thing. It makes me very nervous being directly to the North.",
">\n\nIt's gotten so bad, even America isn't capable of spreading democracy to (checks notes) America.",
">\n\nThe scary part is what happens to the rest of us once they go full fascist.",
">\n\nI feel like some country must have like a plan B for when shit hits the fan. Like the Dutch or the Danish having some cyberbomb that shuts down all nuclear launching capabilities. Or actual space lasers. AI powered hamsters maybe...\nA country that wasn't under any threat in this modern age has no need to advertise their warfare advancements.",
">\n\nI presume the people of the 14th district of Georgia are over the moon about it. They voted her in with almost 66% of the vote.\nNow the rest of us have to listen to this cartoon villain for another two years",
">\n\nThe other 34% tried. We really did.",
">\n\nWe sure did, solidarity and thanks for your vote. I live in a majority PoC neighborhood in her district and almost all of my neighbors are progressive liberals struggling to get by. Every time she is mentioned on Reddit some moron is like “the people of the 14th love her”. The hell we do! She sucks ass.",
">\n\nI didn’t realize how far south our district goes. Are you closer to Atlanta? I’m not too far from Rome.",
">\n\nI’m north of Dallas, relatively close to the Cobb County border. My area would definitely surprise people who think the district is all dirt roads and hillbilly extremists.",
">\n\nI remember when I was in elementary school. We each got a turn to use a special chair in one of my classes for a week. That also would be too much power for her.",
">\n\nShe is literally a seditionist.",
">\n\nI will never understand how anyone can find someone like this to be anything but an awful person. I just don't get it. She is so hateful.",
">\n\nThats exactly why she appeals to conservative voters. It’s not a coincidence.",
">\n\nThis would not be happening if Merrick Garland was worth anything at all as an Attorney General. He's a joke, and Biden isn't much better for sitting back and refusing to replace him with someone willing to do his actual job.\nIt amazes me how Brazil, a month out from their coup attempt, has already done more than the US has to hold its high traitors accountable than the US has in two+ years.",
">\n\nTicking another item off the list of things McCarthy agreed to, to become speaker of the house.",
">\n\nIt’s pretty much scripted drama folks. She’s being elevated so that McCarthy doesn’t look so bad.",
">\n\nYeah. President and vp killed while this lying scum Christian nationalist is in that seat, THEN what? Do you trust them?",
">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Greene existing leaves everyone physically ill",
">\n\nSo tired of the GOP being treated like legitimate political discourse. They are abhorrent and insurrectionist rebels and need to be crushed.",
">\n\nOstracism, people, ostracism. Also write down all names of people approving her directly or indirectly. They need to go as well.",
">\n\nAs it should. I've never seen someone more unfit for public office in my life. And that includes Trump.",
">\n\nMTG, a scientifically ignorant religious bigot, misogynist, and homophobe.",
">\n\nShe got to cosplay being a regular house member. This will end in 2024.",
">\n\nAmerica. You’re a laughing stock.",
">\n\nHave been since the Reagan years. The remainder of the first world continues to be amazed we can be so ignorant, hateful, callous, and proud of it. It’s quite sad. The GOP have actively worked for decades to dismantle the U.S. and harm the majority of people, while also continuing to be elected by those they want to hurt. Makes no sense and interacting with someone from another country always turns into, “Wait, the U.S. does/doesn’t (blank)!? Wooooow…”.",
">\n\n\nThe remainder of the first world continues to be amazed we can be so ignorant, hateful, callous, and proud of it.\n\nThis is downplaying the rise of far right fascism across the globe",
">\n\nIt's sad how quickly the lessons of history are forgotten. Millions of people fought and died to prevent a global fascist takeover during World War II, but now a distressing number of their descendants are actively working towards undoing that sacrifice.",
">\n\nBut she hates her job when she has to work long hours but loves it when she gets to play house with McCarthy",
">\n\nMarge in Charge will turn out millennials/gen Z like the GOP has never seen. Make them wish they could raise the voting age to 40 and every other vote suppression trick in the book",
">\n\nSo glad I am in California right now and feel for our folks trapped in these red states that are captive to their governor's ambitions and the party of extremism now.\nAlso, way too many normal folks will ultimately back the extremist party now.",
">\n\nThat's exactly what they're going for. This is about \"trolling\" the country with an obviously incompetent Rep just to show they can. Don't freak out and give her more media coverage. Organize and vote.",
">\n\nHow did she graduate from middle school?",
">\n\nThe success of the radical tends to drive out or redefine the mainstream. The historical parallels are scary.",
">\n\nI truly believe things have to get really awful and extremely revolting for regular people to start making the right decisions (eg.- getting out and vote, pushing for a change)\nIt's always the same unfortunately, and nothing changes ...\nso I hope things get worse, horribly worst",
">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset",
">\n\nJesus that was hard to watch",
">\n\nListening to her speak in that exaggerated southern accent of hers makes me want to pour battery acid into my ear canals.",
">\n\nShe's trying so hard to be AOC.\nIt's hysterically embarrassing.",
">\n\nThe words \"presiding over House\" were unnecessary.",
">\n\ni will forever refer to her as \"empty greene\"",
">\n\nThe Dems and the Lincoln project have a very nice campaign visual now. MTG probably turns out Democratic voters and independents as much as Trump did. I'm sure she will become the poster child for voting Blue in 2024.",
">\n\nIt would...if history didn't already provide examples of ex-confederate scum bags getting elected in the years after the rebellion was quashed. History repeats itself.",
">\n\nI live in her district. She makes me physically ill just by being here.",
">\n\nThe normalization of Greene and all she believes and stands for will bury our democracy. It's death by a thousand little cuts.\nMeanwhile, the rest of the GOP rants about balloons, holding the economy hostage, and drag queens to keep people distracted from the power they are grabbing in order to push their insanity unto all of us.",
">\n\nShe i it s a reflection of this country’s darkest and most selfish nature.",
">\n\nThis troglodyte is an embarrassment to my state.",
">\n\nShe's been put in those positions to help make sure the next coup attempt works. Mark my words",
">\n\nYeah well get used to seeing her\nGA-14 doesn’t appear to be in a hurry to re-enter the realm of the reasonable anytime soon",
">\n\nThe real Americans of this country are going to have to squash this party to survive. It is so blatant what they're trying to do. If they win, you and I won't matter anymore.",
">\n\nParty with no standards shockingly continues to have no standards!",
">\n\nIsn't comforting to know we have politicians who's only goal is revenge and discrediting the other party.",
">\n\nThe fact that she was elected to public office in general makes me physically ill.",
">\n\nwhy is joe namath wearing a blonde wig and holding up a ghost football?",
">\n\nThis is a good illustration of the dangers of reducing your political engagement to \"us good them bad\".",
">\n\nRepublicans think they’re entitled to associate with christofascist domestic terrorists without being held to account, but in reality individuals aren’t the only ones judged by the company they keep. The same standard applies to political parties.\nIt’s amusing watching the GQP lay the foundation for a RepubliQan free future.",
">\n\nThe deals McCarthy made to finally become Speaker...",
">\n\none comedian tweeted they're phyically ill and newsweek decides to make this headline? fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nThe downward spiral of The Republican Party started with Newt Gingrich",
">\n\nYeah, well, get used to it. She got a taste and now she will fiend. It’s gonna be ~~scary~~ wild",
">\n\nWhen she says she can get used to banging the gravel I have images in my head of a toy monkey banging cymbals together.",
">\n\nShe’s such a piece of shit",
">\n\nDear Lord I'm from New Jersey what the hell is the matter with the people in Georgia voting for an imbecile like Marjorie Taylor Green, are they seriously that stupid in Georgia to vote for this incompetent racist buffoon",
">\n\nYes, they are.",
">\n\nShe doesn't have to preside over anything to make me physically ill.",
">\n\nHey both sides people.\nWhich democrat is as incompetent and demonstrably stupid as MTG?",
">\n\nThere’s not a single democrat that even touches this level of batshit crazy. This is not a both sides issue by any means.",
">\n\nThis country is such a shithole.",
">\n\nHer rise is a clear sign of the downgrade of the Republican party. Its not that she is going up but that the party has declined to her level."
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It's not just for those who can not afford it. Even those that can afford gifts, they're still socially obligated to buy gifts for birthdays, holidays, special occasions..
And whether the family or friends hold you accountable, the people still often feel obligated whether the gift is expected or not. | [
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Never heard of that. To me, if someone gives me a $10 gift I’m fine with that. | [
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">\n\nDoes your family and friends do this? If someone in my family can’t afford something and give no gifts at holidays, we really don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's not just for those who can not afford it. Even those that can afford gifts, they're still socially obligated to buy gifts for birthdays, holidays, special occasions.. \nAnd whether the family or friends hold you accountable, the people still often feel obligated whether the gift is expected or not."
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I completely agree. Gift giving should be based on personal effort and thoughtfulness, not on how much one earns. A handmade gift or a sentimental note can be just as valuable, if not more, than an expensive present. Let's forget about societal expectations and focus on making our loved ones feel appreciated and loved. | [
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">\n\nDoes your family and friends do this? If someone in my family can’t afford something and give no gifts at holidays, we really don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's not just for those who can not afford it. Even those that can afford gifts, they're still socially obligated to buy gifts for birthdays, holidays, special occasions.. \nAnd whether the family or friends hold you accountable, the people still often feel obligated whether the gift is expected or not.",
">\n\nNever heard of that. To me, if someone gives me a $10 gift I’m fine with that."
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">\n\nDoes your family and friends do this? If someone in my family can’t afford something and give no gifts at holidays, we really don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's not just for those who can not afford it. Even those that can afford gifts, they're still socially obligated to buy gifts for birthdays, holidays, special occasions.. \nAnd whether the family or friends hold you accountable, the people still often feel obligated whether the gift is expected or not.",
">\n\nNever heard of that. To me, if someone gives me a $10 gift I’m fine with that.",
">\n\nI completely agree. Gift giving should be based on personal effort and thoughtfulness, not on how much one earns. A handmade gift or a sentimental note can be just as valuable, if not more, than an expensive present. Let's forget about societal expectations and focus on making our loved ones feel appreciated and loved."
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Chickens coming home to roost. The GOP enabled all of these people in a cynical attempt to get more republican votes at all levels even though they're borderline insane. Now look at the house elections with McCarthy, a farce. Same thing here - a representative so dumb she's willing to embarrass the "mainstream" (I use that term sparingly here) GOP in Arizona just to make a point on her false reality.
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McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years.
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It is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing. | [
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They use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse. | [
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">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift."
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">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse."
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">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference"
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Good luck with that one. | [
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">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues."
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At this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror.
I'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well "going high" went. | [
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">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one."
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"Going high" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast "we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean," so-called "strategy."
Does anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?
Whenever I hear a whine about "civility" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting "blood and soil" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor. | [
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">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went."
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A lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).
That's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog. | [
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">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor."
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">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog."
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I know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him."
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I think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office."
] |
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There was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place."
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Let’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020."
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It should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy."
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The go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy."
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I miss Dark Biden | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats."
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The problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.
When you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden"
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Not elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway.
Also cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools! | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job."
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Republicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!"
] |
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It's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care."
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Non-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity."
] |
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We have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about."
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The non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the "voting matters" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters."
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I disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail."
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)
When Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.
The high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.
Comer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.
Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5 | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that."
] |
>
The problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.” | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5"
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The average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”"
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If they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become."
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Yes | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead."
] |
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How about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes"
] |
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My favorite part of these "investigations" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters"
] |
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I havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk? | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional."
] |
>
GOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?"
] |
>
The thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good."
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I don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane."
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Conservatives can't govern. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to."
] |
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That’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern."
] |
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And they’re the ones who broke it! | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work."
] |
>
They've been doing that for quite a while now... | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!"
] |
>
Unfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now..."
] |
>
Awesome. That’s gonna help inflation how?
I know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive."
] |
>
Ignore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any."
] |
>
Honestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em."
] |
>
Republicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists.
And now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see.
Please proceed, governor. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns."
] |
>
These investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor."
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It’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden."
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Agreed | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this."
] |
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Are you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid? | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed"
] |
>
Yeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters…… | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?"
] |
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Any dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……"
] |
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doesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments."
] |
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Can Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists!
Not back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan."
] |
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The author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him."
] |
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Bold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes."
] |
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There's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work.
There's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence."
] |
>
I've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.
Yeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered."
] |
>
That’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way.
And truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are."
] |
>
NONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the "wittiest" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like."
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This isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.
This is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio "investigated" Obama's birth certificate. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments."
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But that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate."
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"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief."
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Haven't yet! | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't.."
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Democrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!"
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Wonder what they will uncover. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party"
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“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover."
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This headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan"
] |
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the "Weaponization" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious"
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Looking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing."
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Maybe start by asking Kevin "Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???" | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television."
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Agreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\""
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Jim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit"
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As things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool"
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make things work if they just find the elusive "moderate" Republicans. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon."
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Get ready for McCarthyism 2.0 | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans."
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no die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0"
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Gym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short... | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0",
">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in."
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It waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0",
">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.",
">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short..."
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Republicans weirdos. Great name for their party. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0",
">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.",
">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...",
">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire."
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Out of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿 | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0",
">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.",
">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...",
">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.",
">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party."
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I always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0",
">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.",
">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...",
">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.",
">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.",
">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿"
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There is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0",
">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.",
">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...",
">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.",
">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.",
">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿",
">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore."
] |
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So.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now? | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0",
">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.",
">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...",
">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.",
">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.",
">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿",
">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.",
">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom."
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yep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0",
">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.",
">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...",
">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.",
">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.",
">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿",
">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.",
">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.",
">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?"
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This is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0",
">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.",
">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...",
">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.",
">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.",
">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿",
">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.",
">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.",
">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?",
">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something."
] |
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and it is, they got elected. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0",
">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.",
">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...",
">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.",
">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.",
">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿",
">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.",
">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.",
">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?",
">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.",
">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency"
] |
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Tbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).
What the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc.. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0",
">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.",
">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...",
">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.",
">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.",
">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿",
">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.",
">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.",
">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?",
">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.",
">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency",
">\n\nand it is, they got elected."
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“Stupid is as stupid does.”
-Mama Gump | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0",
">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.",
">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...",
">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.",
">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.",
">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿",
">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.",
">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.",
">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?",
">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.",
">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency",
">\n\nand it is, they got elected.",
">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc.."
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Okay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that. | [
"McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them",
">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.",
">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.",
">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.",
">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference",
">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.",
">\n\nGood luck with that one.",
">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.",
">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.",
">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.",
">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.",
">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.",
">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.",
">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.",
">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.",
">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.",
">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.",
">\n\nI miss Dark Biden",
">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.",
">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!",
">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.",
">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.",
">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.",
">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.",
">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.",
">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5",
">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”",
">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.",
">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.",
">\n\nYes",
">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters",
">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.",
">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?",
">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.",
">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.",
">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.",
">\n\nConservatives can't govern.",
">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.",
">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!",
">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...",
">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.",
">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.",
">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.",
">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.",
">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.",
">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.",
">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.",
">\n\nAgreed",
">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?",
">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……",
">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.",
">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.",
">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.",
">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.",
">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.",
">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.",
">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.",
">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.",
">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.",
">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.",
">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.",
">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..",
">\n\nHaven't yet!",
">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party",
">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.",
">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan",
">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious",
">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.",
">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.",
">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"",
">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit",
">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool",
">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.",
">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.",
">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0",
">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.",
">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...",
">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.",
">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.",
">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿",
">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.",
">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.",
">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?",
">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.",
">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency",
">\n\nand it is, they got elected.",
">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..",
">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump"
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